This is a brand new Gentoo install. startx with xterm and twm works perfectly. My problem is that when I run startx the GNOME wallpaper is displayed along with a working mouse cursor, but nothing else shows up. I've been searching over the past day and I did manage to find some posts from users with similar issues; however, none of their solutions have worked for me.

This sometimes happens to me, too.
Pressing ctrl alt f1, logging in as root and restarting the login manager usually does the trick for me. It doesn't happen very often, though, so if you get it everytime you log in something seems to be wrong, but I don't know what._________________Kali Ma
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This is a brand new Gentoo install. startx with xterm and twm works perfectly. My problem is that when I run startx the GNOME wallpaper is displayed along with a working mouse cursor, but nothing else shows up. I've been searching over the past day and I did manage to find some posts from users with similar issues; however, none of their solutions have worked for me.

[ 51.957] (WW) NVIDIA: The Composite and Xinerama extensions are both enabled, which
[ 51.957] (WW) NVIDIA: is an unsupported configuration. The driver will continue
[ 51.957] (WW) NVIDIA: to load, but may behave strangely.
[ 51.957] (WW) NVIDIA: Xinerama is enabled, so RandR has likely been disabled by the
[ 51.957] (WW) NVIDIA: X server.

When I came to think about it, I also have had this behaviour. I was lucky though to have Terminal loaded in the upstart of GNOME. So I ran

Quote:

killall -s KILL gnome-panel
killall -s KILL nautilus

Those two auto-starts when killed. I had to try a few times. The thing was that I had a bad setup for package gvfs, using the gdu-flag.
For a long while I had to reemerge gvfs with USE="-gdu" emerge gvfs:0, alternatively emerge -C gvfs && USE="gdu" emerge gvfs